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2010-06-15, 9:37 AM #1
..Jesus burned down last night

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_lightning_strikes_jesus_statue

:tfti:
"Nulla tenaci invia est via"
2010-06-15, 9:39 AM #2
:tfti:
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2010-06-15, 9:42 AM #3
I drove by that thing on my way through Ohio a couple years ago... It's hilarious that it was struck by lightning and burned down.
2010-06-15, 9:58 AM #4
OHIO
free(jin);
tofu sucks
2010-06-15, 4:32 PM #5
Originally posted by Darth:
I drove by that thing on my way through Ohio a couple years ago... It's hilarious that it was struck by lightning and burned down.

I've also driven by this giant sack of **** on several occasions. I'm glad to see it burn. It saves me the trouble.
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2010-06-15, 4:55 PM #6
It'll be back in 3 days
"His Will Was Set, And Only Death Would Break It"

"None knows what the new day shall bring him"
2010-06-15, 5:00 PM #7
:tfti::master:
2010-06-15, 5:01 PM #8
NICE.
My girlfriend paid a lot of money for that tv; I want to watch ALL OF IT. - JM
2010-06-15, 5:04 PM #9
Hahahaha. Religion is so cute.
2010-06-15, 5:16 PM #10
Originally posted by Mentat:
I've also driven by this giant sack of **** on several occasions. I'm glad to see it burn. It saves me the trouble.


...why?
2010-06-15, 5:23 PM #11
Oh nice they even have pictures of it burning now
"Nulla tenaci invia est via"
2010-06-15, 7:36 PM #12
Originally posted by Anakin9012:
...why?

It's a pushy, tacky & colossal (literally) waste of money & time. If they'd put as much effort in to learning something real &/or useful as they do in to building such monstrosities they'd be inclined to agree.
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2010-06-15, 7:42 PM #13
It's Ohio. They NEED to build distracting things like this because it's ... OHIO.
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2010-06-15, 7:42 PM #14
Pro tip:
Don't read the comments unless you want to end up gouging your eyes out. I'm typing this blind.
2010-06-15, 7:54 PM #15
Originally posted by ECHOMAN:
It's Ohio. They NEED to build distracting things like this because it's ... OHIO.

You've got a point there.
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2010-06-15, 8:13 PM #16
I nearly had a heart attack thinking the real Touchdown Jesus burned down. I'm not religious at all, but a Notre Dame fan I am...
>>untie shoes
2010-06-15, 8:17 PM #17
It's not the touchdown Jesus. It's called Butter Jesus, because it looks like butter, and apparently melts like it too.

I live less than 30 minutes from this horrible thing, it's right on one of Cincinnati's highways toward Dayton. The whole church there is pretty whack.
2010-06-15, 8:32 PM #18
Originally posted by Cool Matty:
The whole church there is pretty whack.


[quote=The Article]The "King of Kings" statue, one of southwest Ohio's most familiar landmarks, had stood since 2004 at the evangelical Solid Rock Church along Interstate 75 in Monroe, just north of Cincinnati.[/quote]

Q.E.D.
2010-06-15, 8:33 PM #19
Originally posted by Mentat:
It's a pushy, tacky & colossal (literally) waste of money & time. If they'd put as much effort in to learning something real &/or useful as they do in to building such monstrosities they'd be inclined to agree.


I don't understand why you'd want to destroy someone's church, though.
2010-06-15, 8:35 PM #20
Originally posted by Anakin9012:
I don't understand why you'd want to destroy someone's church, though.


He never once said a single thing that indicated he meant anything other than the statue.

[edit]Bonus:
http://annielambert.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/the-giant-jesuses-of-the-world/

Originally posted by blog:
*Update: I have just been informed that not only is Drowning Jesus (also called Touchdown Jesus, haha!) a giant styrofoam idol to bow down and pray (and be baptized) before, he is also a Sprint cell phone tower! Wow. I don’t think it’s possible for a church to become more materialistic than this one. Am I wrong, or isn’t it a Christian principle to help others that are in need? Imagine how many homeless and poor people could’ve been fed with the money used to build that statue?
2010-06-15, 9:10 PM #21
Originally posted by Aglar:
He never once said a single thing that indicated he meant anything other than the statue.


Okay, then why would anyone want to destroy the statue? It's not bothering anyone.
2010-06-15, 9:15 PM #22
Except it is. It's a gigantic eyesore and a monument to self righteousness.
2010-06-15, 9:16 PM #23
Originally posted by Aglar:
Except it is. It's a gigantic eyesore and a monument to self righteousness.


So who is it hurting?
2010-06-15, 9:19 PM #24
Originally posted by Anakin9012:
So who is it hurting?


Every single person who is forced to look at it against their will.
2010-06-15, 10:10 PM #25
Originally posted by Anakin9012:
So who is it hurting?


I'm sure it's caused more than one wreck on the expressway it's literally in spitting distance from.
2010-06-16, 8:18 AM #26
My girlfriend paid a lot of money for that tv; I want to watch ALL OF IT. - JM
2010-06-16, 8:20 AM #27
Originally posted by Aglar:
Every single person who is forced to look at it against their will.


It's not any worse than all of the billboards along major interstates advertising strip clubs, but no one complains about those.
2010-06-16, 8:58 AM #28
Originally posted by Steven:
billboards along major interstates advertising strip clubs, but no one complains about those.


Excuse me while I laugh my ass off
You can't judge a book by it's file size
2010-06-16, 9:58 AM #29
Originally posted by Steven:
It's not any worse than all of the billboards along major interstates advertising strip clubs, but no one complains about those.

I personally complain about advertisements, including billboards, to my wife, family & friends almost every day (that subject just hasn't come up here). The ones that really piss me off are the ones between Louisville, KY & Nashville, TN that tell me that I'm going to hell (there have actually been lawsuits filed over these & other ones across my state). They have a right (as long as the court rules that they're not in violation of the highway beautification laws that are in place) to have them just like I have a right to be happy if they burn down.


This is basically what our country has become & I'm personally disgusted by it.
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2010-06-16, 10:04 AM #30
Originally posted by Anakin9012:
So who is it hurting?

I'm not going to argue that it mentally or physically "hurts" anyone but that doesn't mean that I don't think that it does. I simply don't want to get in to a 3 week debate w/ 37 pages over the issue that no good will come from (there's probably no empirical evidence on either side). I'm instead going to say that it hurts people about as much as me wanting it to burn hurts people.
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2010-06-16, 10:06 AM #31
I don't know if you guys have them in your neck of the woods, but we have these super annoying LCD/LED/digital/whatever billboards where I live. The ad changes every 10 seconds, the colors are loud and obnoxious, and at the night the things are ****ing bright - you can see them from miles away. THOSE should be illegal.

[Also, they have a cool moving billboard of a guy eating a hamburger not far from where I live]
2010-06-16, 10:13 AM #32
Agreed 100%, surely they've caused accidents
You can't judge a book by it's file size
2010-06-16, 10:34 AM #33
Originally posted by Steven:
I don't know if you guys have them in your neck of the woods, but we have these super annoying LCD billboards where I live. The ad changes every 10 seconds, the colors are loud and obnoxious, and at the night the things are ****ing bright - you can see them from miles away. THOSE should be illegal.

That sounds like something from "Bladerunner". I think we have something similar to that near our fairgrounds area & I must admit that I usually take my eyes off the road a bit to try & catch the upcoming events.
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2010-06-16, 10:40 AM #34
Originally posted by Steven:
I don't know if you guys have them in your neck of the woods, but we have these super annoying LCD/LED/digital/whatever billboards where I live. The ad changes every 10 seconds, the colors are loud and obnoxious, and at the night the things are ****ing bright - you can see them from miles away. THOSE should be illegal.


Totally, extremely distracting while driving
"Nulla tenaci invia est via"
2010-07-14, 2:01 PM #35
Originally posted by zanardi:
Totally, extremely distracting while driving

Yeah, but that's kind of the point.
nope.
2010-07-14, 2:31 PM #36
This thread is old.
2010-07-14, 2:34 PM #37
Originally posted by Baconfish:
Yeah, but that's kind of the point.


To distract drivers more than they already are? Sadly you are probably right.
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